Origami comes from two words. ORI mean Folding and GAMI means Paper. What is 3D Origami? It means that You need identical folded paper pieces, to assemble them together which can tricky. One sheet of copy paper A4 gives 32 folded paper pieces. Using colorful papers to build 3D Origami gives countless number of possibilities to build items in which the imagination is the only limit.

My wife made five very basic 3D origamis. She emphasized to me that these are no “masterpieces”, but experiments. She made one paper swan, two paper flower vases, one paper plate and one jewellery box. After photos I give video links in which You can see how all these are made. Before these video links, I give links how 3D Origami are folded.

wow!!!! the swan and the jewellery box are my favourites; what a great work of art! congratulations to your wife, she’s brilliant! I want to try and make something like at some point. Thanks for sharing 🙂

Sartenada, I was just wondering about that very thing. My daughters 28th birthday is coming up in Sept, and I think that would be so perfect for her. Thank you for the post and the wonderful ideas.. Happy blogging to ya my friend, from Laura

So Your idea is great and You have time to train with some simple model. These require: patience, diligence, commitment, disassembly and sitting! 🙂 I am sure that You manage it and the present will be lovely surprise!

Sartenada, I thought this project arrived at the perfect time, my knees have been overworked with gardening over here, and I need to sit more, but it’s hard for me to ever sit still when Springs is here.. So, this is my recoup project made to order.. See your lovely wife has helped me heal my knees , by way of keeping me busy sitting and crafting… hugs to your wife

Wow!!＼(◎o◎)／！ What wonderful!
I know folding paper, too, but I don’t know so elaborate and beautiful folding paper.
The colors are also pretty.
Your wife is very very good with her hands and she has good taste.

Thank You, my wife is happy when reading Your kind comment. I am also glad that You noticed the meaning of photography it can give inspiration to people who want to start to make these and give them to somebody as presents.

Thank You. My wife is very modest, but she enjoys very much creating things with her hands. It is her way to feed the brain. My way is learning of foreign languages and translations, they keep my brains spry. 🙂

Incredible! Please tell Anja that these objects ARE masterpieces! ^^ I’m so impressed how many paper pieces have to be used and have to be prepared and how they are folded and connected! (And I admire Anja’s patience, too!)
Thanks for taking photos of this special artwork and for giving additional links!

Moi!
Thank you for your beautiful photos.
“Origami” is Japanese word. And, one of Japanese unique traditional arts.(Not 3D)
It is the art of folding a sheet of paper into various figures such as birds, animals and many other things without using scissors or paste. Colored sheets of paper which are cut in a square shape are used for this.
Yes, I can make some animals and things by “Origami”. Very popular ones is “crane”.
I put how to make “crane” by “Origami” here. Please try it when you have a little time.http://www.opane.com/crane.html

And, I talk to you that I am closing my blog’s comment space now. I am sorry when you can not put your comment. But I am very glad to hear that you see my post.

What it is a wonderful swan, and make an industrial art object with origami is fun at all. I can make the swan which opened a wing. Mother made a pot stand. I make an ornamental scented ball(
薬玉） and enjoy it.

Very nice to read that You knew 3D Origami and that Your mother of Your husband has made them. Well, You are not the first thinking that Sartenada is my wife. It is very understandable, because in many languages words ending with a, are feminine and words ending with o, are masculine. Translators give its meaning in English: “1. As much meat or fish as a frying-pan can hold. (f)”.

I selected the name, because it is very easy to pronounce (Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and French for example). 🙂

Thank You. Well, my native language is Finnish and in school I learned also German and Swedish. I understand both of them, but not being able to blog in them. When I started blogging in WordPress, I considered in which languages to blog. Finally I decided to use English, Spanish and French. Now I have studied two winters Portuguese, so I added it also.

Why these languages? They cover huge amount of people in our worlds and I wanted to present to them my “unknown” country showing landscapes, historical places, culture, habits and handcrafts etc. My wife has been great help for me, because she has been beading and quilting.

Spanish has been great success if checking where my visitors did come. Why not in Finnish? My opinion is that everyone Finn knows his / her county and thus not telling to them things which they know already before is not necessary.

I have been “international” in my work life and thus this is natural continuation to write in many languages.

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A beautiful example of complex, 3-D Origami! I admire the patience required to put these beautiful objects together!
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